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romanawgarlic
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Hello all! I am just a guy whos taking a basic statistics course and came across a phenomena that interested me. Probably very basic, but i can't figure it out by myself.
Was messing around on my TI-84 the other day, and ended up just pressing "solve" on a binomial probability function where the probability of the events were the answers of the previously performed function. I don't know exactly how to explain it, so i'll just write it out:
(10 nCr 1)(ans^9)((1-ans)^1)
weirdly, i kept getting numbers around the same values, so i put the equation into excell and ran it a thousand times with a random starting number (0<x<1). strangely, no matter what the first number was, the answers always tended to the same four numbers, in the same order:
0,385203336 0,048336317 0,30947461 0,110469374
What gives? Nothing about this in my textbook, and i don't know where to start searching on the internet. An explanation or link to related theory or anything that will alleviate my puzzlement would be much appreciated.
Thanks y'all!
Was messing around on my TI-84 the other day, and ended up just pressing "solve" on a binomial probability function where the probability of the events were the answers of the previously performed function. I don't know exactly how to explain it, so i'll just write it out:
(10 nCr 1)(ans^9)((1-ans)^1)
weirdly, i kept getting numbers around the same values, so i put the equation into excell and ran it a thousand times with a random starting number (0<x<1). strangely, no matter what the first number was, the answers always tended to the same four numbers, in the same order:
0,385203336 0,048336317 0,30947461 0,110469374
What gives? Nothing about this in my textbook, and i don't know where to start searching on the internet. An explanation or link to related theory or anything that will alleviate my puzzlement would be much appreciated.
Thanks y'all!